JWST/NIRCam Discovery of the First Y+Y Brown Dwarf Binary: WISE J033605.05–014350.4 - Archive ouverte HAL
Article Dans Une Revue (Article De Synthèse) The Astrophysical journal letters Année : 2023

JWST/NIRCam Discovery of the First Y+Y Brown Dwarf Binary: WISE J033605.05–014350.4

Per Calissendorff
Matthew de Furio
Michael Meyer
Christian Aganze
Charles Beichman
Adam Burgasser
Michael Cushing
Christopher Gelino
John Gizis
Sandy Leggett
Benjamin Pope
Thomas Roellig
Johannes Sahlmann
Daniel Peter Thorngren
Marie Ygouf

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Abstract We report the discovery of the first brown dwarf binary system with a Y dwarf primary, WISE J033605.05−014350.4, observed with NIRCam on JWST with the F150W and F480M filters. We employed an empirical point-spread function binary model to identify the companion, located at a projected separation of 0.″084, position angle of 295°, and with contrasts of 2.8 and 1.8 mag in F150W and F480M, respectively. At a distance of 10 pc based on its Spitzer parallax, and assuming a random inclination distribution, the physical separation is approximately 1 au. Evolutionary models predict for that an age of 1–5 Gyr, the companion mass is about 4–12.5 Jupiter masses around the 7.5–20 Jupiter mass primary, corresponding to a companion-to-host mass fraction of q = 0.61 ± 0.05. Under the assumption of a Keplerian orbit the period for this extreme binary is in the range of 5–9 yr. The system joins a small but growing sample of ultracool dwarf binaries with effective temperatures of a few hundreds of Kelvin. Brown dwarf binaries lie at the nexus of importance for understanding the formation mechanisms of these elusive objects, as they allow us to investigate whether the companions formed as stars or as planets in a disk around the primary.
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Per Calissendorff, Matthew de Furio, Michael Meyer, Loïc Albert, Christian Aganze, et al.. JWST/NIRCam Discovery of the First Y+Y Brown Dwarf Binary: WISE J033605.05–014350.4. The Astrophysical journal letters, 2023, 947 (2), pp.L30. ⟨10.3847/2041-8213/acc86d⟩. ⟨hal-04254064⟩
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